Prelims

Strategy and Managed Decline

FRONTIERS OF MANAGEMENT HISTORY

Edited by: Dr Kevin D. Tennent, University of York, UK; Dr Alex G. Gillett, University of York, UK

Frontiers of Management History focusses on new and emerging scholarship on management history, presenting innovative methodological approaches to study history, and new or disruptive ways of thinking about and theorising management and business history. The books within the series combine the craft of the business historian with the methodology of the social scientist, to offer interdisciplinary perspectives on the management history field, alongside theories, frameworks, critiques and applications for practice. Featuring a wide range of theoretical, empirical and historiographical contributions concerned with organisations from various sectors, the series creates a new space in which to engage a new generation of historians and social scientists, to contribute to the future direction of business, organisational and management history.

Previous volumes:

London Transport: A Hybrid in History 1905–1948

By James Fowler

The Red Taylorist: The Life and Times of Walter Nicholas Polakov

By Diana Kelly

The Emergence of Modern Hospital Management and Organisation in the World 1880s–1930s

By Paloma Fernández Pérez

Strategy and Managed Decline: London Transport 1948–87

BY

JAMES FOWLER

University of Essex, UK

United Kingdom – North America – Japan – India – Malaysia – China

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First edition 2021

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Dr James Fowler is a Lecturer at The Essex Business School. His academic interests are in the fields of business, management and organisational history. He has published in the areas of disaster management, hybrid organisations, public governance and statistical accounting. His previous book in this series covers the history of London’s transport from 1905 to 1948.

I am very grateful to Kevin Tennent and Alex Gillett for giving me the chance to write this book. It has been a pleasure for me to do so and a very welcome respite from an otherwise grim year. I am also very grateful to Roy Edwards and David Turner for their continued background encouragement, and to Nathan Darroch and Leon Daniels for inspiring many of the background ideas. I would also like to thank David Bould for his editorial help, Tamara Thornhill and Melissa McGreechan at the TfL Archives as well as Caroline Warhurst at the LTM library and the LTM pictures team who allowed me access to all of the fascinating archival materials without which this book would not exist.